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<b><i>Online Extra</i></b><br>Publishers Seek Antitrust Exemption to Better Negotiate With Google, Facebook Image

<b><i>Online Extra</i></b><br>Publishers Seek Antitrust Exemption to Better Negotiate With Google, Facebook

Todd Cunningham

U.S. newspaper publishers, who say they are chafing under the market power of Google and Facebook, are calling on Congress to allow them to negotiate collectively with the online giants.

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Social Media Scene: Permission to Post Image

Social Media Scene: Permission to Post

Spencer X Smith

<b><I>NASA Doesn't Need a Social Media Policy, and Neither Do You</I></b><p>You don't need a separate policy governing how your firm's staff will represent you on social media. You already have one.

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<b><i>Online Extra</i></b><br> In First-of-Its-Kind Ruling, SCOTUS Strikes Down Law Barring Social Media Use by Sex Offenders Image

<b><i>Online Extra</i></b><br> In First-of-Its-Kind Ruling, SCOTUS Strikes Down Law Barring Social Media Use by Sex Offenders

Tony Mauro

Social media gained a new level of First Amendment respect on June 19 as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina law that barred registered sex offenders from posting on social networking sites.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br> 9th Circuit 'Dancing Baby' Decision Will Stand Image

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br> 9th Circuit 'Dancing Baby' Decision Will Stand

Scott Graham

The Supreme Court let stand a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision that said issuers of takedown notices aren't liable under the DMCA unless they actually knew that the material did not infringe their copyright, or were willfully blind to that knowledge.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br> Snap Accused of Infringing Patents With Snapchat Tech Image

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br> Snap Accused of Infringing Patents With Snapchat Tech

Tom McParland

A Texas company has accused Snap Inc. of infringing four patents with systems that allow Snapchat users to scan "Snapcodes" and add friends on the popular social networking app.

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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br> Law Firm Apps Designed to Impress Clients — and to Win Them Image

<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br> Law Firm Apps Designed to Impress Clients — and to Win Them

Miriam Rozen

More firms are working to tailor their apps to the right audiences, and improving their use as client development tools in the process.

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5 Legal Consequences of Diving 'All In' on Social Media Image

5 Legal Consequences of Diving 'All In' on Social Media

Benjamin Znaty & Marc Schuler

<b><i>Companies and Lawyers Should Begin to Learn the Laws of Individual Platforms Before Trying to Apply National and Local Legal Concepts</b></i><p>Since the possibilities offered by social networks and their reach on consumers are unquestionable, companies must remember that important legal consequences exist between an online presence on social media and on a proprietary website. We look at a few key consequences of going "all in" with social platforms below.

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WannaCry Attack Is A Wake-Up Call for Cyber Preparedness Image

WannaCry Attack Is A Wake-Up Call for Cyber Preparedness

India E. Vincent

The scope of WannaCry changed our perceptions of ransomware attacks. It made it clear that ransomware could reach a broad cross-section of computers worldwide, at essentially the same time.

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Netflix Dooming Need for Foreign Presales Deals Image

Netflix Dooming Need for Foreign Presales Deals

Todd Cunningham

Foreign rights presales, which since the 1970s have been used by independent Hollywood producers to raise funds to get their movies shot, are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Credit Netflix for giving them a big shove out the door. So what does that mean for Hollywood's deal lawyers? Bigger rights deals — but fewer of them to go around.

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Searching for Web Crawling's Legal Boundaries Image

Searching for Web Crawling's Legal Boundaries

Joshua L. Simmons

Web pages are a treasure-trove of useful information for companies that are able to capture it using Web crawling (or scraping) technology. Yet, for over 20 years, courts have struggled to draw the line between the usefulness of such information and the rights of the content owners and website operators from which that content is derived. Once a niche issue, the increased use of this technology has compounded the disputes related to it.

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